Azra Dawood is the recipient of a $20,000 Travel / Research Fellowship. Ms. Dawood graduated in June 2010 with a Master of Science in Architectural Studies from the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her Master’s Thesis, “Failure to Engage: The Breasted-Rockefeller Gift of a New Egyptian Museum and Research Institute at Cairo,” won a “2009-2010 John Taylor Herget Award for Academic Excellence.” Through a combination of archival work and travel in the Middle East, England, France, Ireland and the United States, Ms Dawood plans to utilize her Fellowship to carry out further research on her larger topic, “Rockefeller Philanthropies: The Construction of U.S. Identity.” Ms Dawood also holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Texas at Austin (2001) and has worked for architecture firms and research organizations in Karachi (her home town), Austin and New York.